We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
